Obesity and Diabetes

Obesity and type 2 diabetes are conditions that are increasingly prevalent worldwide. An interdisciplinary cluster for the study of obesity and associated diseases has been established to include experimental, clinical, genetic and epidemiologic studies. Biobanks consisting of fat biopsies, blood and urine samples from obese patients treated with bariatric surgery have been established. The patients are treated at several hospitals in Norway that use different surgical procedures. We also perform dietary intervention studies to study clinical and molecular changes during weight loss.